A Rooster Alone Does Not Weave The Dawn was a group show at Quinta do Quetzal in 2021, curated by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas and Aveline de Bruin.

“Sara Bichão’s artistic practice has the experimental, the plastic and the organic as fundamental to the thought and development behind her work. There is a rhythm that punctuates each sculpture, each drawing and their relationship to each other. Furthermore, her research process also has an immaterial concept; that of memory. Transposed to the works through the most diverse materials she uses, making its physicality an evidence, in a constant game of experimentalism, exploring the bodily capacities of those same materials that she works with. Here, we find, for the most part, a set of works created during the period of isolation that has been experienced globally in the last year and a half, during which the concept of time took on a whole new meaning – time to think, to find, to experiment. It is from this moment of suspension that new compositions, new colors, new materials emerge, which contain all the plastic and visual characteristics (already so striking) of Sara Bichão’s work, add to these the influence of time that isolation brought. The works turn out to be a kind of self-portraits of that moment, reflections of a personal dive into the infinity of days.”
Excerpt of the curatorial text by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas and Aveline de Bruin, 2021

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